May 18, 20179 yr Has anyone any thoughts about this board for Unraid? All SATA ports usable etc? Thinking of upgrading to this with an i7-6800K. I don't want any addin SATA boards having had issues with those in the past. Also might want to do at least one VM machine for some encoding hence the power CPU Anything I should consider?
May 18, 20179 yr Why would the SATA ports not be usable? They're Intel chipset ports. I struggled with an Asus X99-A and unRAID, mostly because the board was unreliable at booting off a non-UEFI USB stick. It would boot OK if manually told to from the F8 menu, but would never boot automatically, no matter what the boot priority was in the UEFI menu. You'll need a video card, too, as there's no onboard video. I used a Matrox G690 PCI-E card. My old 8MB RageXL PCI had to go in to retirement due to the lack of PCI slots.
May 18, 20179 yr Author 3 minutes ago, HellDiverUK said: Why would the SATA ports not be usable? They're Intel chipset ports. I struggled with an Asus X99-A and unRAID, mostly because the board was unreliable at booting off a non-UEFI USB stick. It would boot OK if manually told to from the F8 menu, but would never boot automatically, no matter what the boot priority was in the UEFI menu. You'll need a video card, too, as there's no onboard video. I used a Matrox G690 PCI-E card. My old 8MB RageXL PCI had to go in to retirement due to the lack of PCI slots. At least a couple of ports are not off the X99 chipset. Asmedia I think. The booting could be an annoying issue though. Yeah, I got an Geforce 660 GTX card I was planning on using for it.
May 18, 20179 yr Ah, yes, my Google-fu was weak and missed the extra ports. 10 are off the Intel, the other two AsMedia. unRAID has worked with any AsMedia chips I've come across, so I recon it'll work OK. Yes, the booting issue was very frustrating. It wasn't just unRAID that had issues booting, even depending on how I created Windows boot sticks would mean booting or not.
June 3, 20179 yr Author Decided not to build wih this board since the postoffice smashed the package And now X299 is announced so I will wait. Thanks for the help.
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